The following is a timeline to show the deadlines of what you need to have accomplished week by week. You do not need to follow exactly this timeline as the inquiry cycle can be repeated and repeated during each week. This timeline is to make sure that by the end of each week your group is on track with the inquiry and to focus on the time left you have for your inquiry.
EXHIBITION TIMELINE
WEEK 1 11th April
WEEK 2 2nd May
WEEK 3 9th May
WEEK 4 16th May
WEEK 5 23rd May
WEEK 6 3Oth May
WEEK 7 6th June
WEEK 8 14-16th June
Team Meeting
Team Meeting
First Mentor
Meeting
Second
Meeting
Third
Meeting
Fourth
Meeting
Fifth
Meeting
Exhibition for Primary, Bach & parents
Stage1 Inquiry Cycle
Stage 2 of the Inquiry Cycle
Stages 3 of the Inquiry Cycle
Stages 4of the Inquiry Cycle
Stages 5of the
Inquiry Cycle
Stage 6 of the
Inquiry cycle
Revising & Preparing the Presentation
Staging the Exhibition
TUNING IN
TUNING IN & FINDING OUT
FINDING OUT&SORTING OUT
GOING FURTHER
MAKING CONCLUSIONS
TAKING ACTION
14.05 WEEK 4:GOING FURTHER (Week 4) 16th May ü How might we organise our information and ideas? o It is time to organise the information you have collected. You need to synthesise your information and the ideas you have. You need think how you will present them.
ü What is important to know about the presentation format we are using? o It is time to decide what type of performance you would like to do. How will you present your ideas in a creative and original way? Choose a way of presenting that everyone in the group agrees upon and feels comfortable with. Have you identified everyone’s strengths within the group and are applying this for your presentation? Do you realize that this is the most important performance Assessment in all your PYP years? Try to stay away from traditional ways of presenting your information and ideas.
ü How do we know when our research is finished? o What else do you need to find out about your topic? How do you know? With the resources you have used and the information you have found out and have collected, have you been able to answer your key questions, lines of inquiry and student questions in depth? If not, you have to decide how you will collect the missing information and collect it.
ü How do we feel about the amount of information that we have collected? (Weekly reflection) o Do you have enough information? Sort out the relevant and irrelevant information, take out the unnecessary information. Is there too much or too little? This will make your job summarizing easier.
ü What are we feeling now that we must create a product to share? (Weekly reflection) o Are you able to agree with your group on an original presentation format? Is it suitable and realistic within the time frame you have? Is everyone cooperating within the group with the same level of enthusiasm? Are we confident about the way we will present our ideas? Or, Are we anxious, do not have any ideas and need help? If so, are we looking for solutions?
ü Are we satisfied with our creation? o Will you impact your audience with your Exhibition presentation? Is it original and a different way of presenting information? Is it interactive? Will the people that visit your stand be really amazed by your creativity and originality?
Your group may simultaneously still be FINDING OUT &SORTING OUT,that is ok, please go back to the previous week's instructions to include all these different stages of inquiry in your weekly plan. Remembering you can be at different stages of the inquiry cycle and also going ahead with the next stages, refining your ideas for possible ACTION as you sort out your ideas and findings!
Be ready next week to beMAKING CONCLUSIONS!
Week 3: 9th May-FINDING OUT &SORTING OUT FIRST OF ALL DRAW UP A WEEKLY PLAN TO DESIGN HOW YOU WILL SPEND YOUR TIME IN EACH LESSON AND AT HOME. LOOK AT THE CHECKLIST AND PLAN AND DIVIDE RESPONSIBILITIES. Your CRT will give you some ideas.
To advance in your work you must polish off your lines of inquiry with your mentor and CRT. Please publish them on the wiki!
FINDING OUT You need to continue completing the tasks from this stage of the inquiry. (See last weeks notes)
This chart will help you to be more organised. It must be filled in.
Type of Resource
Date
Objective: What are you aiming to find out? (Additionally you must identify which key question, student questions or loi are you addressing.)
Responsible
Tick if completed
Make sure you are finding out as much as possible, but be organised so you work efficiently.
Get your plan, instruments and questionnaires checked by teachers and get in action!
Important note for Appointments, interviews and surveys. : All interview questionnaires and questions for surveys must be revised by your classroom teacher before you can photocopy them or apply them.
To request permission for internal or external appointments: Download the correct format below. Step 1: inform the classroom teacher who will sign the format. Step 2: Take signed format to Ms. Patricia asking for permission at least 2 days in advance. You can only schedule appointments, interviews, surveys etc at different times from your mentor meetings, maths and P.E times. Ask your CRT-Classroom teacher for these times.
What information is relevant to our questions?(Which answers our key questions , student questions and lines ofinquiry)
What parts support out answers? (Choose the exact parts that really answer the questions)
How does it relate to what else we know? (Make connections between what you know and are finding out)
What parts do not support our answers? (Avoid including unnecessary information)
Does it raise new questions? ( Do we need to collect new information?)
What are we feeling about our inquiry at this phase?(Group and individual reflection on wiki)
How have our feelings changed since the beginning of our research?(Group and individual reflection on wiki)
By the end of this week as a group you should have:
organised the information you have been FINDING OUT to sort out which is relevant, which information contributes to answer key questions, student questions and lines of inquiry
Made connections and discarded whatever is not necessary or does not point to what you need to find out
Made new questions to further your inquiry and planned how to deal with them. (What?/ how?/who?/when? Why?).
Published in the wiki this new information you have found for the key questions and lines of inquiry
Added a bibliography page in order to add all the names of resources you use
Filled in the 1st draft of Exhibition planner in pencil (The planner will be uploaded mid-week with the central idea)
Had a 1st full meeting with mentor this week and distributed responsibilities and tasks for next week
Made group and individual weekly reflection about feelings at this stage of the inquiry, and how feelings have changed?
Completed Individual tasks:
Have your personal inquiry information in a swing lock folder which you will have available in all meetings with mentors and teachers.
Recorded skills, attribute, attitude weekly sheet and have in folder.
Participated on adding findings and sorting out information on the wiki.
Be ready next week to be GOING FURTHER
Week 2: 2nd May-TUNING IN&FINDING OUT: TUNING IN: You need to finish focusing and preparing. Check you have answered the key questions initially and review each key question to make a list of what you need to find out and how.
You should have:
A list of things you need to find out to answer these questions for your inquiry.
A list of ways you are going to find out and collect this information: which strategies and resources will you need to use: resources,interviews, surveys.
FINDING OUT: By the end of this week you should have
Planned your work to ensure you used a variety of resources and divided up responsibilities
Created instruments to collect information such as surveys and interviews
Applied the surveys & made the interviews experts (Some appointments or surveys could be done at the beginning of next week)
Collected all the information you need for your inquiry in an organized way (library, internet, videos). A variety of resources must have been used. Remember to build a bibliography as you go along.
Published on wiki all this information to show your process, showing who did what and when
It will help you for your interviews and surveys if you download a copy of: Interview guidelines.docx
Week 1: 11th April-TUNING IN: You should have begun to answer the key questions, making questions about your inquiry and structuring a plan of what you need to find out and how you will do it. This week you must finish focusing and preparing, so that... Next week you are ready to collect information in an organized way.
EXHIBITION TIMELINE
11th April
2nd May
9th May
16th May
23rd May
3Oth May
6th June
14-16th June
Meeting
Meeting
Meeting
Meeting
Meeting
Inquiry Cycle
Inquiry Cycle
Inquiry cycle
Revising & Preparing the Presentation
Staging the Exhibition
&
FINDING OUT
14.05
WEEK 4:GOING FURTHER (Week 4) 16th May
ü How might we organise our information and ideas?
o It is time to organise the information you have collected. You need to synthesise your information and the ideas you have. You need think how you will present them.
ü What is important to know about the presentation format we are using?
o It is time to decide what type of performance you would like to do. How will you present your ideas in a creative and original way? Choose a way of presenting that everyone in the group agrees upon and feels comfortable with. Have you identified everyone’s strengths within the group and are applying this for your presentation? Do you realize that this is the most important performance Assessment in all your PYP years? Try to stay away from traditional ways of presenting your information and ideas.
ü How do we know when our research is finished?
o What else do you need to find out about your topic? How do you know? With the resources you have used and the information you have found out and have collected, have you been able to answer your key questions, lines of inquiry and student questions in depth? If not, you have to decide how you will collect the missing information and collect it.
ü How do we feel about the amount of information that we have
collected? (Weekly reflection)
o Do you have enough information? Sort out the relevant and irrelevant information, take out the unnecessary information. Is there too much or too little? This will make your job summarizing easier.
ü What are we feeling now that we must create a product to share?
(Weekly reflection)
o Are you able to agree with your group on an original presentation format? Is it suitable and realistic within the time frame you have? Is everyone cooperating within the group with the same level of enthusiasm? Are we confident about the way we will present our ideas? Or, Are we anxious, do not have any ideas and need help? If so, are we looking for solutions?
ü Are we satisfied with our creation?
o Will you impact your audience with your Exhibition presentation? Is it original and a different way of presenting information? Is it interactive? Will the people that visit your stand be really amazed by your creativity and originality?
Your group may simultaneously still be FINDING OUT & SORTING OUT,that is ok, please go back to the previous week's instructions to include all these different stages of inquiry in your weekly plan. Remembering you can be at different stages of the inquiry cycle and also going ahead with the next stages, refining your ideas for possible ACTION as you sort out your ideas and findings!
Be ready next week to be MAKING CONCLUSIONS!
Week 3: 9th May- FINDING OUT & SORTING OUT
FIRST OF ALL DRAW UP A WEEKLY PLAN TO DESIGN HOW YOU WILL SPEND YOUR TIME IN EACH LESSON AND AT HOME.
LOOK AT THE CHECKLIST AND PLAN AND DIVIDE RESPONSIBILITIES. Your CRT will give you some ideas.
To advance in your work you must polish off your lines of inquiry with your mentor and CRT. Please publish them on the wiki!
FINDING OUT
You need to continue completing the tasks from this stage of the inquiry. (See last weeks notes)
This chart will help you to be more organised. It must be filled in.
(Additionally you must identify which key question, student questions or loi are you addressing.)
completed
Download formats to get authorisation for any internal or external appointments from your classroom teacher and Mrs. Patricia.
SORTING OUT:
By the end of this week as a group you should have:
Completed Individual tasks:
Be ready next week to be GOING FURTHER
Week 2: 2nd May- TUNING IN & FINDING OUT:
TUNING IN:
You need to finish focusing and preparing. Check you have answered the key questions initially and review each key question to make a list of what you need to find out and how.
You should have:
FINDING OUT:
By the end of this week you should have
It will help you for your interviews and surveys if you download a copy of:
Be ready next week to be...
SORTING OUT YOUR INFORMATION
Be ready to work with your mentors next week!
Week 1: 11th April- TUNING IN:
You should have begun to answer the key questions, making questions about your inquiry and structuring a plan of what you need to find out and how you will do it. This week you must finish focusing and preparing, so that...
Next week you are ready to collect information in an organized way.
by: ana maria naranjo